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The sequel to Strumpet City and described as a rich tapestry of Irish life from 1914 to the end of World War II. It's about growing up: Tim McDonagh and his two close friends move through childhood and adolescence to early manhood, each adapting in his own way to the varied and complex strands of the Irish heritage. The Church is, of course, a powerful influence; as is the strong blood-myth of race and a pervasive nostalgia for the lost, golden age of the Gael: a crowded, mythological world of gods, warriors and hero-poets. There's also the passionate antagonisms of the Civil War which had so recently marked the setting-up of the new State and turned the triumph of the uprising to dust and ashes. There are characters personifying these influences: O'Sheehan, the eccentric old librarian and Celtic scholar who believes he is Oisin, - son of Finn MacCumhaill of Gaelic mythology (and therefore about 2,000 years old...) Cornelius Moloney publican and politician, who hopes to make his fortune by training greyhounds; and petty politicians and feuding Treatyites and Anti-Treatyites who were at one time brothers-in-arms. -
Set against the struggle of the working classes and the suffragettes for equality from the England of the mid-19th century to the 1930s. John Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. As he looks back, he wonders if his successes brought him over to the side of the establishment? Is he still the same as that boy who thrilled to stories of heroes and grand achievements, who so proudly inherited a Peterloo sabre from “the Old Warrior,” his family’s lodger? -
'They're onto us, sir!' With the velocity of galvanised thought, Dutchy had already accepted that ugly fact. Now his whirling mind was faced with more ugly facts. He could sink this patrol boat. But the wind was astern, blowing straight to shore; the coast was less than fifteen miles away, and under these conditions the sound of four inch guns might carry that far. Even if it didn't and the boat blew up, the gush of flame would be sighted. Against these possible risks there stood, definite and undeniable, the certainty that if he did nothing, then the game was up. Not only must the mission be aborted, but they would be mercilessly attacked on the way home. -
Fall Of Giants: Ken Follett
$7.00–$20.00Book One of the Century Trilogy. Master tale-spinner Follett tells of five families brought together through the dramas of the World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women. In 1911, on King George's coronation day, 13-year-old Billy begins his first day at work in a coal mine. Drama and intrigue move on from this point, from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the filth and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace and from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. -
401 BC... In the ancient world, one army was feared above all others. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones. Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy’s empire, without support, without food, and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes’s legendary Persian warriors. -
A Gregory Sallust adventure No. III. British secret agent Gregory Sallust is on the run after being shot down in Nazi Germany. His journey to save the woman he loves takes him to Finland and Russia in the midst of some of the worst battles in the early days of World War II. Illustrated by John Holder. -
A Gregory Sallust adventure No. III. British secret agent Gregory Sallust is on the run after being shot down in Nazi Germany. His journey to save the woman he loves takes him to Finland and Russia in the midst of some of the worst battles in the early days of World War II. Illustrated by John Holder. -
Faith: Peter James
$10.00For plastic surgeon Ross Ransome, at the top of his profession, perfection is more than an ideal - it's his living. He's one of the most successful - and certainly one of the richest - plastic surgeons in the business. Even his wife is perfect. After all, he's spent hours in surgery getting her that way. When his wife falls ill, she turns her back on conventional medicine and her arid marriage and seeks help from a charismatic alternative therapist who promises more than medical salvation. For Ransome, this is the ultimate betrayal. It defies logic, and Ross Ransome is a profoundly logical man. Logically, he can see no reason why any man should have his wife when he can't. -
Faith: Len Deighton
$15.00The first of a trilogy that takes up where Hook, Line and Sinker ended. Bernard's wife Fiona cannot reconcile herself to his affair with the youthful Gloria, who now works alongside them both. Bernard must fly to the grim streets of Magdeburg and the closely guarded sanctum of the secret police and within hours, finds himself in a shoot out with Stasi agents. His best friend Werner is in disgrace and in exile, and Werner's father-in-law has seized his children. Caught between protocols and two women with his job on the line, the Cold War turns to ice.
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